Two presidential electors in Colorado filed a federal court lawsuit on Tuesday, questioning a state law that forced them to vote for the candidate chosen by the state’s popular vote. The campaign supports efforts to block Donald Trump from the U.S. presidency in January.

Presidents aren’t directly chosen by voters, but by “electors” that all 50 states send to the electoral college. Those selected are expected to vote as their state’s citizens did, but they technically don’t have to, according to U.S. law. Two Democratic electors from the Centennial State proposed a new plan – they’ll choose a Republican candidate, as long as it’s not Trump.

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“Though Hillary Clinton and Timothy Kaine won the majority vote in Colorado and are qualified for office, plaintiffs cannot be constitutionally compelled to vote for them,” the lawsuit claimed. “Plaintiffs are entitled to exercise their judgment and free will to vote for whomever they believe to be the most qualified and fit for the offices of president and vice president, whether those candidates are Democrats, Republicans or from a third-party.”

In Colorado, this act of rebellion is technically illegal and would make Polly Baca and Robert Nemanich, two of the electors at the helm of the lawsuit, “faithless."

“Instead of honoring the will of the Coloradans who voted for them, these two faithless electors seek to conspire with electors from other states to elect a president who did not receive a single vote in November,” Republican Secretary of State Wayne Williams said in a statement, claiming Nemanich and Baca “succumbed to cabal, intrigue and corruption.”

“Make no mistake, this is not some noble effort to fight some unjust or unconstitutional law; rather, this is an arrogant attempt by two faithless electors to elevate their personal desires over the entire will of the people of Colorado,” he added. “And in so doing, they seek to violate Colorado law and their own pledges.”

He also called the act the “type of evil that President Franklin Roosevelt warned us about when he cautioned that voters – not elected officials such as these faithless electors – are ‘the ultimate rulers of our democracy.’”